[Bug 364094] [NEW] glibc does not understand DNAME (RFC 2672) DNS records

2009-04-20 Thread Malcolm Scott
Public bug reported: When attempting to resolve a DNS name abstracted via a DNAME record (see RFC 2672), glibc's stub resolver: (1) logs, via syslog, a debug message: $ grep DNAME /var/log/auth.log Apr 20 12:43:38 callisto alpine: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for "1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.0.

[Bug 364094] Re: glibc does not understand DNAME (RFC 2672) DNS records

2009-04-20 Thread Malcolm Scott
Er, that last line was meant to say: The relevant code is around glibc-2.9/resolv/gethnamaddr.c:342 and glibc-2.9/resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c:792 (2.9-4ubuntu6). -- glibc does not understand DNAME (RFC 2672) DNS records https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/364094 You received this bug notification beca

[Bug 351580] Re: trac CGI templates have incorrect #! line

2009-05-18 Thread Malcolm Scott
Ah, right, I wasn't aware of trac-admin deploy; I assumed one was supposed to copy/symlink the template. ** Changed in: trac (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- trac CGI templates have incorrect #! line https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/351580 You received this bug notification because you a

[Bug 193757] Re: no candidate found for xfonts-artwiz in Hardy

2008-07-08 Thread Malcolm Scott
** Changed in: xfonts-artwiz (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- no candidate found for xfonts-artwiz in Hardy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/193757 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ub

[Bug 277402] Re: NetworkManager crashed (on login) with SIGSEGV in start_thread()

2008-10-02 Thread Malcolm Scott
** Attachment added: "CoreDump.gz" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18153399/CoreDump.gz ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18153400/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "Disassembly.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18153401/Disassembly.txt ** Attachm

[Bug 150918] Re: Setting the number of workspaces under compiz does not also set the keybindings

2008-10-04 Thread Malcolm Scott
This bug is still present in Intrepid Beta. -- Setting the number of workspaces under compiz does not also set the keybindings https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/150918 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailin

[Bug 275447] Re: update music-applet to support banshee

2008-10-04 Thread Malcolm Scott
I second this -- would be great to have the newer version in intrepid if it's not too late. Thanks. -- update music-applet to support banshee https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/275447 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubu

[Bug 197421] Re: Firefox UI for SSL certificate shows incomplete domain

2008-06-26 Thread Malcolm Scott
Indeed, this appears to have been substantially improved. Portions of the CN are still being stripped off; I still think that's possibly unwise, but clearly someone thinks differently, so since my original complaint is no longer relevant I'll close this bug. ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)

[Bug 230003] [NEW] openssh-server: regression: won't install due to debconf error

2008-05-13 Thread Malcolm Scott
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: openssh-server When upgrading openssh-server on a gutsy box today I ran into this: Preconfiguring packages ... openssh-server template parse error: Template #4 in /tmp/openssh-server.template.4862 has a duplicate field "template" with new value "ssh/vu

[Bug 175297] Re: system filesystems are logged within munin

2008-08-02 Thread Malcolm Scott
Attaching a patch to fix this. ** Attachment added: "Patch" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16495826/munin-df.diff -- system filesystems are logged within munin https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175297 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 175297] Re: system filesystems are logged within munin

2008-08-02 Thread Malcolm Scott
This fix was incomplete -- system filesystems are not excluded when the plugin is reporting its configuration, which results in such filesystems appearing with usage as 'nan' (not a number). ** Changed in: munin (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Confirmed -- system filesystems are logged w

[Bug 175297] Re: system filesystems are logged within munin

2008-08-02 Thread Malcolm Scott
Revised the patch to also exclude bind-mounted filesystems (which will always have the same df output as another local filesystem). ** Attachment added: "Revised patch" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16495922/munin-df.diff -- system filesystems are logged within munin https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Bug 230577] Re: small bug in /usr/lib/xen-tools/hardy.d/100-ubuntu-setup

2009-01-05 Thread Malcolm Scott
This bug breaks tty1 on dom0 by rewriting dom0's /etc/event.d/tty1, and has a really simple fix (removal of 100-ubuntu-setup) -- why hasn't it been fixed yet? -- small bug in /usr/lib/xen-tools/hardy.d/100-ubuntu-setup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/230577 You received this bug notification beca

[Bug 351580] [NEW] trac CGI templates have incorrect #! line

2009-03-30 Thread Malcolm Scott
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: trac 14:11:52 1011 ma...@callisto:~$ head -n1 /usr/share/pyshared/trac/admin/templates/*.{cgi,fcgi,wsgi} ==> /usr/share/pyshared/trac/admin/templates/deploy_trac.cgi <== #!${executable} ==> /usr/share/pyshared/trac/admin/templates/deploy_trac.fcgi <== #

[Bug 298085] Re: maildrop is compiled without authlib extension !

2009-07-10 Thread Malcolm Scott
This just caused me to lose email after an upgrade... hopefully it's just a small oversight that can be rectified easily to save other people this misfortune. -- maildrop is compiled without authlib extension ! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/298085 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 298085] Re: maildrop is compiled without authlib extension !

2009-07-10 Thread Malcolm Scott
I suspect the problem to be lines 116-119 of maildrop/configure.in: if test -d ${srcdir}/../courier then COURIERAUTHCONFIG="" fi This check was added since the version of courier in hardy and appears to disable authlib support if maildrop is being built as part of the courier package (as it i

[Bug 33967] Re: A way to disable low disk space warnings

2009-07-10 Thread Malcolm Scott
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 390504 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/390504 In karmic I'm getting these warnings about once a minute for a couple of read-only NFS mounts! Very irritating. -- A way to disable low disk space warnings https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/33967 You received

[Bug 390504] Re: gnome-settings-daemon should keep its opinions about my disk management to itself

2009-07-11 Thread Malcolm Scott
In current karmic I'm getting these warnings pop up every minute or so, for a few read-only NFS filesystems. As Steve said, it is useless to provide warnings for filesystems to which the user cannot write (nor indeed can anyone else on the system, in this case). And I'm not sure why they're poppi

[Bug 407173] [NEW] openssh: Please set traffic class on IPv6 packets

2009-07-30 Thread Malcolm Scott
Public bug reported: OpenSSH sets the IPv4 ToS (Type of Service) byte to "low delay" or "max throughput" depending on the situation, but does not set the equivalent IPv6 Traffic Class byte. As far as I understand, these two bytes are supposed to be used the same way. Debian bug http://bugs.debia

[Bug 148618] Re: Change in behaviour of gzreadline() caused debmirror to delete my whole mirror

2007-10-23 Thread Malcolm Scott
Duplicate of #136634 -- Change in behaviour of gzreadline() caused debmirror to delete my whole mirror https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148618 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@

[Bug 136634] Re: Unable to download packages using Gutsy debmirror

2007-10-23 Thread Malcolm Scott
This is in Debian as http://bugs.debian.org/435656 -- their solution involved fixing libcompress-zlib-perl. -- Unable to download packages using Gutsy debmirror https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/136634 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug cont

[Bug 136634] Re: Unable to download packages using Gutsy debmirror

2007-10-23 Thread Malcolm Scott
** Changed in: libcompress-zlib-perl (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: debmirror => libcompress-zlib-perl -- Unable to download packages using Gutsy debmirror https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/136634 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for

[Bug 174038] Re: bad md5sum in Packages file

2008-04-21 Thread Malcolm Scott
Indeed, I feel it would look very unprofessional to say the least if Hardy were to be released in a state in which it cannot be securely mirrored. Surely it is a simple matter for the right person to fix this? -- bad md5sum in Packages file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/174038 You received thi

[Bug 185719] Re: remove duplicate pci ids bcm43xx/ssb prism54/p54pci

2008-04-29 Thread Malcolm Scott
This causes my wireless PCMCIA card not to work. Using the p54pci driver, I get: :02:00.0 (prism54pci): cannot find firmware (isl3886) ACPI: PCI interrupt for device :02:00.0 disabled prism54pci: probe of :02:00.0 failed with error -2 (I note that the isl3886 firmware is present on m

[Bug 99040] Re: [xubuntu-only] xfdesktop crashed with SIGSEGV in common_desktop_menu()

2008-05-11 Thread Malcolm Scott
I'm also seeing this behaviour. Alternative workaround: Settings Manager -> Desktop ->enable "Show desktop menu on right click". Looks like the segfault occurs when all the menus which could be displayed have been turned off. -- [xubuntu-only] xfdesktop crashed with SIGSEGV in common_desktop_me

[Bug 197421] [NEW] Firefox UI for SSL certificate shows incomplete domain

2008-03-01 Thread Malcolm Scott
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: firefox-3.0 If I visit a HTTPS site and click the favicon by the URL bar, the pop-up balloon containing information about the SSL certificate appears to always display exactly the last two levels of the domain name only. This results in misleading/useless

[Bug 197421] Re: Firefox UI for SSL certificate shows incomplete domain

2008-03-01 Thread Malcolm Scott
** Attachment added: "screenshot" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12344503/ffox-wildcard-cert-bug.png -- Firefox UI for SSL certificate shows incomplete domain https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197421 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 174038] Re: bad md5sum in Packages file

2008-01-15 Thread Malcolm Scott
I note that debmirror will refuse to update a mirror in this situation, so no mirrors using debmirror will update until this is fixed. -- bad md5sum in Packages file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/174038 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug

[Bug 184719] vim uses ./$TMPDIR (literally, not expanded) as temporary directory

2008-01-20 Thread Malcolm Scott
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: vim If the TMPDIR environment variable is *not* set, vim will attempt to create temporary files in ./$TMPDIR (a literal directory name containing a dollar sign, not an environment variable expansion). It should instead try /tmp if TMPDIR is not set. Imp

[Bug 184721] Re: linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22 ships with deprecated asus_acpi.ko

2008-01-20 Thread Malcolm Scott
** Summary changed: - linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22 + linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22 ships with deprecated asus_acpi.ko -- linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22 ships with deprecated asus_acpi.ko https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/184721 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whi

[Bug 173043] Re: php5 5.2.3-1ubuntu6.1 introduced segfault regression

2007-11-30 Thread Malcolm Scott
I've reproduced the crash using a self-compiled package with debug symbols (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip,debug). Here's the backtrace: #0 0x2b886ee62b50 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x0051f4e4 in php_session_reset_id () at /home/malcolm/srcfphpbuild/php5-5.2.3/ext/session/sessi

[Bug 173043] Re: php5 5.2.3-1ubuntu6.1 introduced segfault regression

2007-11-30 Thread Malcolm Scott
Rebuilding the imap and mcrypt did not stop the segfaults. -- php5 5.2.3-1ubuntu6.1 introduced segfault regression https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173043 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 173043] Re: php5 5.2.3-1ubuntu6.1 introduced segfault regression

2007-11-30 Thread Malcolm Scott
Crash report attached for a crash in phpMyAdmin (just loading the login form), with the rebuilt imap and mcrypt modules installed. ** Attachment added: "Crash report (phpMyAdmin)" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10670256/_usr_lib_cgi-bin_php5.33.crash -- php5 5.2.3-1ubuntu6.1 introduced segfaul

[Bug 173043] php5 5.2.3-1ubuntu6.1 introduced segfault regression

2007-11-30 Thread Malcolm Scott
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: php5 Since installing the latest security update for PHP (5.2.3-1ubuntu6.1) I am seeing segfaults when accessing some PHP CGI scripts: Nov 30 13:20:41 pip kernel: [2049612.462000] php5-cgi[3740]: segfault at a0239a60 rip 2aee99db8b50 rsp 000

[Bug 173043] Re: php5 5.2.3-1ubuntu6.1 introduced segfault regression

2007-11-30 Thread Malcolm Scott
Got it! The necessary header for php_url_encode wasn't included, and the implicit declaration wasn't quite right. The following patch appears to stop the segfaults: --- ext/session/session.c.orig 2007-12-01 05:41:38.502160889 + +++ ext/session/session.c 2007-12-01 05:27:50.052388781 +

[Bug 173043] Re: php5 5.2.3-1ubuntu6.1 introduced segfault regression

2007-11-30 Thread Malcolm Scott
These are standard debs from the gutsy-security repository. A variety of different scripts are crashing, including phpMyAdmin, Gallery, MediaWiki, etc. There are several pertinent crash reports in /var/crash but unfortunately they're likely to contain user data (MySQL passwords etc.) -- I'll see

[Bug 173043] Re: php5 5.2.3-1ubuntu6.1 introduced segfault regression

2007-12-01 Thread Malcolm Scott
My configuration is essentially the same as yours (I removed the Alias line from /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf and used a symlink instead, but I doubt that affects the bug). What arch are you using -- perhaps the bug only manifests itself on amd64? I did also find that certain things would cause th

[Bug 131885] Re: Backlight no longer under my control on battery

2007-12-14 Thread Malcolm Scott
I agree: when I adjust the backlight brightness using the hotkeys (on my HP 2510p) the setting is completely forgotten as soon as the system goes idle, which is somewhat irritating. A simple(?) fix could perhaps be to have the backlight hotkeys also update gnome-power-manager's default backlight l

[Bug 155444] Re: Dark screen (no backlight or VERY low brightness) after wake up

2007-12-14 Thread Malcolm Scott
Same on a HP 2510p (intermittently, possibly timing-dependent). Matthew Garrett tells me that "you can work around it by adding a script to /etc/acpi/suspend.d that saves the value in /sys/class/backlight/whatever/brightness and one in resume.d that writes it back (do this after the video reinit s

[Bug 38606] Re: scim doesn't play well with focus-follows-mouse

2008-03-18 Thread Malcolm Scott
Confirmed here (latest hardy). This makes SCIM essentially unusable. ** Changed in: scim (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- scim doesn't play well with focus-follows-mouse https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/38606 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, w

[Bug 117943] Re: gnome-session should depend on dbus-x11

2008-03-21 Thread Malcolm Scott
I too see this bug, on upgrading to hardy on my rather minimal (non- GNOME) system on which I still run gnome-settings-daemon in order that my settings will be applied to GTK apps. $ gnome-settings-daemon ** (gnome-settings-daemon:14491): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to session bus: Failed to exe

[Bug 112991] Re: /etc/init.d/apache2 greps excessively for PidFile

2007-05-06 Thread Malcolm Scott
Sorry, should have mentioned: I'm using feisty. -- /etc/init.d/apache2 greps excessively for PidFile https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112991 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@li

[Bug 112991] /etc/init.d/apache2 greps excessively for PidFile

2007-05-06 Thread Malcolm Scott
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: apache2 /etc/init.d/apache2 does a "grep ^PidFile /etc/apache2/* -r". It is not uncommon for there to exist a symlink from /etc/apache2/logs to /var/log/apache2: this causes that invocation of grep to scan through all of Apache's log files. On my web se

[Bug 108602] Re: kernel BUG with ISL3890 Network controller (prism54)

2007-06-26 Thread Malcolm Scott
Hi, I'm seeing something similar (I think). I have a 3Com Office Connect 3CRWE154G72 PCMCIA card, which uses the prism54 driver. On inserting the card I get "Cannot read eeprom"; on then removing and reinserting the card I get a kernel BUG; on removing the card for a second time I get a crash wi

[Bug 108602] Re: kernel BUG with ISL3890 Network controller (prism54)

2007-06-26 Thread Malcolm Scott
Sorry, should have said: up-to-date Feisty, i686, 2.6.20-16-generic. -- kernel BUG with ISL3890 Network controller (prism54) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/108602 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mai

[Bug 92704] Networking shut down too early

2007-03-15 Thread Malcolm Scott
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: netbase When shutting down my feisty system, networking is brought down too early: specifically, before NFS mounts are umounted. This causes quotaoff (called by /etc/rc0.d/K85quota) to hang for a long while as it tries to investigate NFS mounts which are

[Bug 78635] kernel oops in cpufreq / kondemand

2007-01-09 Thread Malcolm Scott
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.20 Sometime during boot, I get this: [ 101.624942] Unable to handle kernel paging request at 8104b4bdadd4 RIP: [ 101.624946] [] :cpufreq_stats:cpufreq_stat_notifier_trans+0x7a/0xb0 [ 101.624952] PGD 8063 PUD 0 [ 101.624954] O

[Bug 78635] Re: kernel oops in cpufreq / kondemand

2007-01-09 Thread Malcolm Scott
I should mention that uname -srvmo reports: Linux 2.6.20-4-generic #2 SMP Fri Jan 5 02:54:59 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux and I'm using feisty. -- kernel oops in cpufreq / kondemand https://launchpad.net/bugs/78635 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/m

[Bug 78635] Re: kernel oops in cpufreq / kondemand

2007-01-09 Thread Malcolm Scott
Furthermore, this also happens in 2.6.20-3-generic, but not in 2.6.20-2-generic. -- kernel oops in cpufreq / kondemand https://launchpad.net/bugs/78635 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 78635] Re: kernel oops in cpufreq / kondemand

2007-01-09 Thread Malcolm Scott
Yes, the same happens using an untainted kernel (with both vmware and nvidia modules uninstalled). -- kernel oops in cpufreq / kondemand https://launchpad.net/bugs/78635 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 78635] Re: kernel oops in cpufreq / kondemand

2007-01-20 Thread Malcolm Scott
This problem appears to have gone away in 2.6.20-5-generic. -- kernel oops in cpufreq / kondemand https://launchpad.net/bugs/78635 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 565810] Re: packages.medibuntu.org not available

2010-04-21 Thread Malcolm Scott
Here's my mirror to add to the mix, in case that's useful: deb http://medibuntu.retrosnub.co.uk/ karmic free non-free deb-src http://medibuntu.retrosnub.co.uk/ karmic free non-free I'll gladly help out in any way I can, e.g. promote my mirror to be an official one -- I was going to contact the me

[Bug 522318] Re: Serial Tablet PCs not supported in lucid

2010-02-16 Thread Malcolm Scott
For the record, my HP 2710p (which worked (almost*) perfectly in Karmic) seems to be affected by this bug -- the pen is ignored in Lucid. This machine has a Wacom digitiser on ttyS0. * (I say "almost" because Karmic treated the pen's right mouse button as a middle mouse button by default, which i

[Bug 461127] Re: Kernel installed by linux-image-virtual isn't usable as Xen DomU kernel

2009-11-11 Thread Malcolm Scott
Has a fix really been committed or was that status update erroneous? -- Kernel installed by linux-image-virtual isn't usable as Xen DomU kernel https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/461127 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- u

[Bug 484209] [NEW] /etc/init/statd.conf: race with portmap startup

2009-11-17 Thread Malcolm Scott
Public bug reported: On my system (a Xen virtual machine running karmic and acting as an NFS client), I see the following during boot: init: statd pre-start process (831) terminated with status 1 mountall: Event failed Enabling console output in /etc/init/statd.conf shows that the error is cause

[Bug 269040] Re: The tasksel task for 'Basic Ubuntu Server' shows up on server iso

2010-05-14 Thread Malcolm Scott
The "Basic Ubuntu server" task is appearing when installing from a 10.04 server CD (amd64) -- regression? -- The tasksel task for 'Basic Ubuntu Server' shows up on server iso https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269040 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 428174] Re: Regression: vfat disks mounted with incorrect shortnames setting

2009-09-11 Thread Malcolm Scott
Apologies, the setting is "shortname" not "shortnames". -- Regression: vfat disks mounted with incorrect shortname setting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428174 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing lis

[Bug 428174] [NEW] Regression: vfat disks mounted with incorrect shortname setting

2009-09-11 Thread Malcolm Scott
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: devicekit-disks Since the move to DeviceKit for karmic, my removable VFAT-formatted disks are being mounted with shortnames=lower. This breaks e.g. rsync: if a file called "FOO" is created, it will actually appear named "foo". Past bugs -- e.g. bug 15525

[Bug 34376] Re: missing main/debian-installer in repo causes debmirror to fail

2009-11-08 Thread Malcolm Scott
I can confirm that this patch is no longer effective for some reason: $ debmirror --method=rsync --host=ubuntu.retrosnub.co.uk --root=:ubuntu --pdiff=mirror '--ignore=^(releases/|cdimage$|\.htaccess$|\.cdimage-lock$)' '--rsync-options=-aIL --partial --no-motd' --getcontents --dist=hardy,hardy-u

[Bug 432128] [NEW] GRUB 2 grub-install writes inside first partition

2009-09-17 Thread Malcolm Scott
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: grub-pc When I install GRUB 2 (1.97~beta3-1ubuntu4, in karmic) to the MBR (grub- install /dev/sda), sectors 78 and 79 are modified. The first partition starts on sector 63; this partition is a NTFS Windows installation so should not be modified by this p

[Bug 432128] Re: GRUB 2 grub-install writes inside first partition

2009-09-17 Thread Malcolm Scott
Sorry, my bad. Failed at converting hex into decimal, how embarrassing :-( The sector involved is actually 37, well before the first partition. So the boot failure is caused by Windows writing its own data to the MBR, which isn't GRUB's fault. ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: New =>

[Bug 1847275] Re: stunnel4: "INTERNAL ERROR: Bad magic at ssl.c, line 117" - DoS vulnerability

2019-10-18 Thread Malcolm Scott
$ stunnel4 -v [ ] Clients allowed=500 [.] stunnel 5.44 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu platform [.] Compiled with OpenSSL 1.1.0g 2 Nov 2017 [.] Running with OpenSSL 1.1.1 11 Sep 2018 [.] Update OpenSSL shared libraries or rebuild stunnel [.] Threading:PTHREAD Sockets:POLL,IPv6,SYSTEMD TLS:ENGINE,FIPS,OCS

[Bug 1847275] Re: stunnel4: "INTERNAL ERROR: Bad magic at ssl.c, line 117" - DoS vulnerability

2019-10-18 Thread Malcolm Scott
** Changed in: stunnel4 (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1847275 Title: stunnel4: "INTERNAL ERROR: Bad magic at ssl.c, line 117" - DoS vulner

[Bug 1847275] Re: stunnel4: "INTERNAL ERROR: Bad magic at ssl.c, line 117" - DoS vulnerability

2019-10-18 Thread Malcolm Scott
Hmm, good question. 1.1.1 was pushed to bionic in June? Unfortunately I don't think I have syslog going back that far on any affected machine. I only recall this problem happening in the last few months. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is sub

[Bug 1859809] [NEW] sshguard <2.1.0 doesn't match "Failed password for invalid user ..."

2020-01-15 Thread Malcolm Scott
Public bug reported: I observe that sshguard 1.7.1-1 in bionic doesn't block SSH bruteforce attacks which are trying to log in as nonexistent accounts. Whilst it blocks attacks which result in auth.log messages like:   Jan 15 08:51:19 io sshd[18965]: Failed password for root from 223.223.200.14

[Bug 1749745] Re: php7.2 has removed the mcrypt module

2018-04-11 Thread Malcolm Scott
roundcube does not in fact need mcrypt since version 1.2 (https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/issues/5780). That the Debian package still depends on php-mcrypt is probably a mistake. Too late to reintroduce roundcube, minus this dependency? ** Bug watch added: github.com/roundcube/roundcu

[Bug 1847275] [NEW] stunnel4: "INTERNAL ERROR: Bad magic at ssl.c, line 117" - DoS vulnerability

2019-10-08 Thread Malcolm Scott
*** This bug is a security vulnerability *** Public security bug reported: On multiple machines running Ubuntu 18.04 (stunnel4 3:5.44-1ubuntu3), I am experiencing stunnel crashes seemingly caused by an attacker sending an invalid handshake of some sort. Aug 23 14:23:23 callisto stunnel[6302]: LO

[Bug 1847275] Re: stunnel4: "INTERNAL ERROR: Bad magic at ssl.c, line 117" - DoS vulnerability

2019-10-08 Thread Malcolm Scott
(Report made public since it's being actively exploited.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1847275 Title: stunnel4: "INTERNAL ERROR: Bad magic at ssl.c, line 117" - DoS vulnerability

[Bug 1852799] [NEW] Regression: modules in bionic -hwe-18.04-edge kernels aren't signed since 5.3.0-22

2019-11-15 Thread Malcolm Scott
Public bug reported: In linux-modules-5.3.0-19-generic and earlier, on bionic, modules were signed (note "signat: PKCS#7"): $ modinfo /lib/modules/5.3.0-19-generic/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpuid.ko filename: /lib/modules/5.3.0-19-generic/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpuid.ko license:GPL des

[Bug 1852799] Re: Regression: modules in bionic -hwe-18.04-edge kernels aren't signed since 5.3.0-22

2019-11-15 Thread Malcolm Scott
Not attaching logs since I can't boot the affected kernels, and this is a packaging issue. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Bug 1859809] Re: sshguard <2.1.0 doesn't match "Failed password for invalid user ..."

2020-10-14 Thread Malcolm Scott
sshguard in Ubuntu 18.04 is still largely nonfunctional. Is the relevant change likely to ever be backported to 18.04? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1859809 Title: sshguard <2.1.0 d

[Bug 1882928] [NEW] /etc/init.d/charybdis reload does nothing due to insecure PID file

2020-06-10 Thread Malcolm Scott
Public bug reported: On focal, I cannot reload charybdis from the init script (or from 'service' or 'systemctl'): $ sudo SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_REDIRECT=1 bash -x /etc/init.d/charybdis reload (...) + start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 --quiet --pidfile /var/run/charybdis/ircd.pid start-stop-daemon: mat

[Bug 1884848] Re: sshguard.service uses wrong path for iptables; nothing actually gets blocked

2020-06-23 Thread Malcolm Scott
None of the machines I've upgraded to focal from bionic have a symlink in /sbin/iptables. $ namei -l /sbin/iptables f: /sbin/iptables drwxr-xr-x root root / drwxr-xr-x root root sbin iptables - No such file or directory However you're right that a fresh install does have them

[Bug 1749745] Re: php7.2 has removed the mcrypt module

2018-04-15 Thread Malcolm Scott
...Indeed Debian just published roundcube 1.3.6+dfsg.1-1 which drops the php-mcrypt dependency. roundcube could now be copied back to Ubuntu as- is. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/17497

[Bug 1754075] Re: apt-setup uses apt-key but probably should not anymore

2018-07-17 Thread Malcolm Scott
Any progress on this? This is a serious regression for us which makes preseed substantially less functional in bionic... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1754075 Title: apt-setup uses

[Bug 1623443] [NEW] xenstore-utils contains multiple copies of the same binary

2016-09-14 Thread Malcolm Scott
Public bug reported: $ dpkg --status xenstore-utils | grep ^Version: Version: 4.6.0-1ubuntu4.1 $ ls -l /usr/bin/xenstore-* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14132 Jun 14 10:33 /usr/bin/xenstore-chmod -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14132 Jun 14 10:33 /usr/bin/xenstore-exists -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14132 Jun 14 10:33

[Bug 1614514] Re: netcfg defaults hostname to DHCPv6-provided NTP server address

2017-05-17 Thread Malcolm Scott
Debian has accepted my patch into netcfg 1.142 -- please would someone sync it? It would be great if this could also be SRU'd into (at least) xenial, as on our network the bug causes the xenial installer to set a nonsensical and misleading hostname for the installed system. -- You received this

[Bug 1295090] Re: CVE-2014-2523

2014-05-26 Thread Malcolm Scott
Would someone mind explaining, please, why this remote code execution vulnerability was only just now fixed in precise despite being fixed upstream in January? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/

[Bug 1222009] [NEW] atftpd fails to install/upgrade if update-inetd needs to interact

2013-09-06 Thread Malcolm Scott
Public bug reported: Setting up atftpd (0.7.git20120829-1) ... *** WARNING: ucf was run from a maintainer script that uses debconf, but the script did not pass --debconf-ok to ucf. The maintainer script should be fixed to not stop debconf before calling ucf,

[Bug 1222009] Re: atftpd fails to install/upgrade if update-inetd needs to interact

2013-09-06 Thread Malcolm Scott
On second thought, this may be a rlinetd bug: perhaps update-inetd should call ucf with --debconf-ok, so that it can be used from maintainer scripts? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/12220

[Bug 1614514] [NEW] netcfg defaults hostname to DHCPv6-provided NTP server address

2016-08-18 Thread Malcolm Scott
Public bug reported: When prompted for a hostname during installation, on my network the default offered is always our second NTP server's IPv6 address, which it received via stateless DHCPv6. netcfg seems to be using the wrong field as a hostname, in the absence of an explicit DHCP-provided host

[Bug 1614514] Re: netcfg defaults hostname to DHCPv6-provided NTP server address

2016-08-18 Thread Malcolm Scott
(This behaviour observed both on the Xenial server ISO and on today's daily Yakkety server ISO.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1614514 Title: netcfg defaults hostname to DHCPv6-provi

[Bug 1614514] Re: netcfg defaults hostname to DHCPv6-provided NTP server address

2016-08-18 Thread Malcolm Scott
The cause: a typo in autoconfig.c causing a buffer overflow into another field of the netcfg_interface struct. Patch coming up. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1614514 Title: netcfg d

[Bug 1614514] Re: netcfg defaults hostname to DHCPv6-provided NTP server address

2016-08-18 Thread Malcolm Scott
** Patch added: "autoconfig-ntp-typo.diff" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netcfg/+bug/1614514/+attachment/4723526/+files/autoconfig-ntp-typo.diff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Bug 1590799] Re: nfs-kernel-server does not start because of dependency failure

2017-02-06 Thread Malcolm Scott
Thanks, Rafael -- I'll put together an environment in which to test the packages (I'd rather not reboot my live NFS servers). However, I think nfs-mountd.service still needs tweaking. rpc.mountd (if using NFSv2 or v3) needs to communicate with rpcbind on startup to register services. Currently n

[Bug 1590799] Re: nfs-kernel-server does not start because of dependency failure

2017-02-06 Thread Malcolm Scott
Furthermore, arguably every RPC service (rpc-statd.service, nfs- mountd.service, etc.) should explicitly have BindsTo=rpcbind.service After=rpcbind.service because they literally are bound to rpcbind. If rpcbind is stopped/restarted, every RPC service must also be stopped/restarted so as t

[Bug 1614514] Re: netcfg defaults hostname to DHCPv6-provided NTP server address

2017-05-16 Thread Malcolm Scott
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #862745 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=862745 ** Also affects: netcfg (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=862745 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because yo

[Bug 1590799] Re: nfs-kernel-server does not start because of dependency failure

2016-08-31 Thread Malcolm Scott
It appears that nfs-mountd.service is missing dependencies: Wants=rpcbind.service After=rpcbind.service (as hinted above in comment 3, but we need After= too). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Bug 1594222] Re: known ssld crash

2016-12-12 Thread Malcolm Scott
This seems to be fixed in yakkety, but the crash still exists in xenial -- any chance that this patch could be applied there too? It's trivial to exploit -- anyone with access to open TCP connections to a charybdis 3.5.0 SSL server can crash the ssld. -- You received this bug notification becaus

[Bug 985852] Re: libapt-pkg regression: infinite loop on processing certain Pre-Depends

2012-04-25 Thread Malcolm Scott
Many thanks for getting this fix into precise quickly! Very much appreciated. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/985852 Title: libapt-pkg regression: infinite loop on processing certain

[Bug 638791] Re: old and faulty rt2860sta [The self compiled rt2860sta works.]

2010-12-02 Thread Malcolm Scott
I just had the rt2860sta driver cause a kernel crash on an Asus EeeBox B202 on lucid. Kernel messages attached (JPEG photo, sorry, couldn't extract them any other way). I wasn't connected to a wireless network; I just ran powertop, which in turn ran iwpriv and triggered the crash. Might I sugges

[Bug 482419] Re: 802.3ad interface bonding fails if started too early

2010-12-06 Thread Malcolm Scott
re #44, Michal, you're bridging together two VLANs -- beware, this will cause most VLAN-aware switches to break down (as VLANs share one forwarding database, and a MAC address can't appear on two ports; in my experience this leads to intermittent very high packet loss as the forwarding database sta

[Bug 1449001] [NEW] systemd-resolved: please do not use Google public DNS by default

2015-04-27 Thread Malcolm Scott
Public bug reported: systemd-resolved will fall back to Google public DNS (8.8.8.8, etc.) in the absence of other configured DNS servers. systemd-resolved is not enabled by default in Ubuntu 15.04, but it is installed by default and will behave in this way if enabled by the user. $ cat /etc/syst

[Bug 1503034] Re: Autofs 5.1.1-1ubuntu2 crashes with segfault on startup

2015-10-26 Thread Malcolm Scott
This is a regression due to recent (upstream?) refactoring of the lookup_ldap module's lookup_init function (modules/lookup_ldap.c). Nothing has initialised the config cache in lib/defaults.c before the call to defaults_get_ldap_timeout on line 1668. Previously, this module's first call to defaul

[Bug 1503034] Re: Autofs 5.1.1-1ubuntu2 crashes with segfault on startup

2015-10-26 Thread Malcolm Scott
And here's the patch in debdiff form, for convenience. ** Patch added: "debdiff" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autofs/+bug/1503034/+attachment/4505875/+files/autofs_lookup_ldap_crash.debdiff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is s

[Bug 824089] Re: Xen blkfront i/o errors prevent boot in domU

2012-04-12 Thread Malcolm Scott
The release incorporating this fix is due for release around late July / early August. The only workaround I know for now is to install a patched kernel in the XenServer dom0. I have one and you may contact me by email if you would like a copy, but bear in mind that it is very much not supported

[Bug 824089] Re: Xen blkfront i/o errors prevent boot in domU

2012-04-12 Thread Malcolm Scott
I should clarify that the timeframe for the XenServer release (6.1) I gave above is an unofficial, unauthoritative estimate and subject to alteration by Citrix. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Bug 994931] Re: Altering use_tempaddr drops all IPv6 addresses

2012-05-18 Thread Malcolm Scott
Alternatively: here's my attempt at fixing the IPv6 Privacy implementation. It could do with code review as I'm not absolutely sure I've got the locking right (although I think I have!). ** Patch added: "fixed IPv6 Privacy implementation" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/9

[Bug 994931] Re: Altering use_tempaddr drops all IPv6 addresses

2012-05-18 Thread Malcolm Scott
jsalisbury: problem is, simply reverting that commit leaves us with IPv6 Privacy not working at all, and it's on by default now. (There is at least one upstream bug: e.g. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42855) I should add that I've tested my patch for a few days and it seems to work

[Bug 994931] Re: Altering use_tempaddr drops all IPv6 addresses

2012-05-18 Thread Malcolm Scott
@jsalisbury I would like to submit this upstream, although my patch is just fixing the previous Ubuntu-specific commit I linked above. Do you know whether that has already been sent upstream? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to U

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